Scientists at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) say Antarctica has the lowest sea ice level recorded since 1979. This was reported in the press service institute
“Record-setting sea ice size has been recorded over the past 44 years,” the publication says.
According to the AARI, the Antarctic sea ice area at the end of February this year was about 1.8 million square kilometers. The ice remaining after the melting of the summer snow cover, as a rule, remained in the Weddell and Amundsen seas.
This is the second year in a row that the ice cover has decreased, with 1.92 million square kilometers of Antarctic sea ice last February, scientists estimate.
Previously, the University of Leeds, on the coast of the Amundsen Sea glaciers loss 3,000 billion tons of ice in the last 25 years.